It was unveiled by the Apple Inc. during a press meeting held at the Steve Jobs theatre in Cupertino, California on September 12 this year. On Nov 3rd 2017, with the release of iPhone X, the next era of iPhone has rolled up.

iPhone X is designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc. and it’s their new flagship to mark the tenth anniversary.

This innovative compact device with 5.8-inch OLED super retina display screen, facial recognition, 3D camera functionality and many more awesome features is said to be the technology of the future era.

In this post, we will deliberately try to round up all the best features of this most exciting and stunning smartphone available under the blue sky.

iPhone X was not built in a day. Let’s take a quick look at the Timeline of iPhone X :

2012 – The research and development team of Apple Inc. was engaged in developing the technologies used in iPhone X for five years, since 2012.

2016 – During the last few months of 2016, rumors spread that a drastic iPhone is being developed by Apple Inc.

July 2k17 – A Home Pod firmware leak suggested that Apple is about to release a new iPhone loaded with stunning new features.

Sep 2k17 – An almost final version of ios11 leaked out that intensified the previous rumors.

iPhone X possess the largest screen ever in iPhone with no bezels and a highly polished curved edge surgical grade stainless steel band. This encompasses a durable all-glass body having IP67 certification of water and dirt resistance.

iPhone X is available in two pearlescent colors – Space Gray and Silver, both having a Black front panel.

iPhone X comfortably fits within the hand having a dimension of 143.6mm x 70.9mm x 7.7mm.

No Home button

Because of having an edge-to-edge top-to-bottom display, iPhone X has no room for a conventional Home button.

By swiping up from the bottom of the screen pops up the Home screen.

A swipe & a hold pops up App Switcher.

A tap on the screen shows notifications.

By pressing and holding the side button, activates Siri.

A downward swipe at the top screen invokes the control center.

Face ID

iPhone X adopted a complex facial recognition system which provides a whole new user experience to unlock the handset.

It is used much like a fingerprint authentication. Face ID authentication system creates a 3D map of user’s face by projecting over 30k infrared dots.

This is termed as “Romeo module”. It is stored in the secured enclave of the A11 Bionic chip for future authentication.

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During face recognition, a 3D True depth front-facing infrared camera reads the pattern of user’s face which is termed as “ Juliet module”.

It is sent to the dual-core neural engine in 6 core A11 Bionic chip to confirm a match.

iPhone X uses infrared camera technology so that Face ID system may be done in dark also. It is so efficient that it can detect user’s face with hat, glasses, sunglasses, beards or any other objects that partially obscure the face.

Face ID does not work with eyes closed.

Face ID of iPhone X is so secure that it can not be deceived by photos, marks or any kind of facial replicas.

Face ID may be used for authenticating Apple pay purchase, App Store purchase or to access passcode protected Apps.

The front camera, with portrait mode, focuses the subject in the foreground and the background is blurred. This subtle but effective lighting approach fabricates a compelling portrait.

There are five dramatic studio lighting effects provided by iPhone X to capture stunning images with a shallow depth of field effect.

Natural light

Stage light

Stage light mono

Studio light

Contour light

Rear camera :

The iPhone X has a dual camera arrangement in vertical alignment.

A 12MP wide-angle camera having a f/1.8 aperture. It supports for face detection, high dynamic range, and optical image stabilization. It can capture 4k video at 24,30,60 fps or 1080p video at 30,60,120,240 fps.

Bluetooth and Wi-Fi

iPhone X supports 802.11ac with MIMO which provides a communication speed up to 866 Mbps.

iPhone X not only supports GPS but also supports Galileo ( Europe’s satellite navigation system ) and QZSS ( Quasi-Zenith satellite navigation system of Japan ).

A11Bionic Chip

The iPhone X is powered by a 64-bit ARM-based A11 Bionic processor on a chip (SoC), designed by Apple Inc.

It is a 10 nano-meter 2.39 GHz CPU with six cores. Among them, there are two high-performance cores, called Monsoon and rest four cores are High-energy efficient cores called Mistral.

By the use of a new second-generation performance controller, all the six cores can be harnessed simultaneously. A11 Bionic chip is 70% faster than its predecessor A10.

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The A11 Bionic chip features an Apple-designed three-core GPU(Graphics Processing Unit) which is 30% faster than A10.

In the A11 Bionic chip, an M11 motion coprocessor and a new image processor are embedded that captures motion-based data from the compass and supports computational photography functions.

The A11 Bionic chip has a dedicated neural network hardware called “neural engine” which can perform more than 600 billion operations per second. The neural engine is used for Face ID, Animoji, and other machine learning tasks.

Battery & Wireless Charging

The iPhone X possess a two-cell battery in an L-shape design having a capacity of 2716 mAh that offers –

Better compression of captured image and videos which offers same image or video quality at much lower storage.

Includes an Augmented reality kit for the developers to create unique AR apps.

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Issues of iPhone X

iPhone X is much different from all its predecessors, but like all smartphones, there are few issues that crop up. Such as,

Screen burn-in :

A portion of users noted that “image persistence” or “burn in” appears when you leave iPhone X screen on for quite a while.

Apple recommends to reduce the brightness of the device & to turn on Auto lock feature after 30 or 60 seconds of inactivity.

Cold :

A fair number of iPhone X users have reported that it becomes unresponsive in cold. While some users have experienced it for a few seconds, some users have experienced a larger freeze up.

Apple Inc. has addressed the issue by introducing iOS 11.1. 2 on Nov 16th 2k17 and requested the customers to update their device to fix this issue.

Green line :

Some iPhone X owners discovered a persistent Green line on the screen.

Apple Inc. is currently replacing the affected handsets and trying to find the source of the problem.

A crackling sound of speaker :

A notable amount of iPhone X users reported a crackling noise from a speaker at a high volume.

Face ID of iPhone X can be unlocked with a mask, even with “Require attention” feature turned on.

Annoying Autocorrect bug of new iOS11 that autocorrecting “it” to “I.T.”

Apple Inc. issued an update to fix this bug but no official fix is available for download.

Conclusion

No doubt…..Its a mega gadget. Criticism can’t challenge its magnitude.

The only debate is whether it is worth the hype or not.

iPhone is never a value for money, rather it is a value for innovation.

Same for iPhone X. It’s worth a try. You must be a part of the technological leap.

These were just a handful of features that people might find useful. Of course, there are many more details we could not round up here. Please feel free to sound off down below with your valuable inputs in the comments section.

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Subhra Prakash is a co-founder of BlogNox. He is a humble person and an electronics engineer by profession. Being a known face in Tech blogger’s world he also enjoys writing in other niches. Besides blogging, he is still passionate about sleeping!